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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery "presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users."

FINALLY, HERE IS MY EXPECTED SUMMARY! I AM SO SORRY IT'S TAKEN SO LONG, BUTI HOPE YOU WILL FIND IT WORTH THE WAIT SINCE I GAVE MY BEST TO MAKE IT ASDETAILED AS POSSIBLE!

THANKS TO THE MANY PEOPLE WHO RESPONDED TO MY QUERY AS TO THE ACQUISITIONOF SUPRASEGMENTALS (INTONATION). AS SO MANY OF YOU RESPONDED, IT'SIMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO LIST EVERYBODY'S MESSAGE, SO I'LL SUM UP THE MAINPOINTS INSTEAD:

I FOUND THE CHAPTER ABOUT PROSODY IN SLA BY AOYAMA KATSURA, ASSISTANTPROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE AND HEARING SCIENCES ATTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, VERY USEFUL. SHE ALSOSUGGESTED CONTACTING MARY BECKMAN, JANET PIERREHUMBERT, ESTHER GRABEREGARDING THE USE OF THE GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH.

TO QUOTE BRYAN JENNER:“PROVIDING YOU USE WINDOWS (AND I DON'T!) A VERY GOOD AND USER-FRIENDLYPROGRAM IS WASP (A SCALED DOWN VERSION OF THE SPEECH FILING SYSTEM, OR SFS)AVAILABLE FREE FROM THE WEBPAGE OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON:WWW.PHON.UCL.AC.UK THEN FOLLOW 'RESOURCES' AND THEN 'SOFTWARE'.(I AGREEABOUT PRAAT: IT IS VERY INTRICATE..”

CAREN BRINCKMANN FROM MANHEIM GAVE ME LOTS OF VALUABLE INFORMATION. SHESUGGESTED THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:HTTP://WWW.AMAZON.DE/PHONETIC-DATA-ANALYSIS-INTRODUCTION-INSTRUMENTAL/DP/0631232702/

HTTP://WWW.AMAZON.DE/METHODS-EMPIRICAL-RESEARCH-LANGUAGE-COGNITION/DP/3110188562/AND THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO (G)TOBIHTTP://WWW.UNI-KOELN.DE/PHIL-FAK/PHONETIK/GTOBI/INDEX.HTML AND ONLINETRAINING MATERIAL (IN GERMAN):HTTP://WWW.UNI-KOELN.DE/PHIL-FAK/PHONETIK/GTOBI/TRAINING/INDEX_TRAINING.HTML

MANY THANKS TO DANIEL HIRST FROM FRANCE FOR SENDING ME SOME OF HISPUBLICATIONS.

I AM ALSO GLAD THAT I PERSONALLY GOT TO KNOW TO DR. DANIJELA TRENKIC ,LECTURER AT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OFYORK, UK, WHO AMONG MANY OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION GAVE ME THE HINT TOCONTACT AOJU CHEN HTTP://WWW.MPI.NL/MEMBERS/AOJUCHEN.

DANIEL STORBECK SUGGESTED CONSULTING THE BOOKS BY ULRIKE GUT, WHO HAD THEPROJECT “LEAP” AND INVESTIGATED THE LEARNING OF THE PROSODY OF A FOREIGNLANGUAGE. THE SECOND PERSON HE HELD FOR THE MOST SUITABLE TO GIVEINFORMATION ABOUT TRANSCRIPTION AND WHO DEVELOPED AN ANNOTATORTASX-ANNOTATOR IS JAN-TORSTEN MILDE FROM FULDA. ACCORDING TO DANIEL, DAFYDDGIBBON IS THE ONE WHO CAN HELP ABOUT PROSODY. OLESSIA PANZYGA ALSOSUGGESTED ULRIKE GUT’S BOOK.

I WAS GLAD TO FIND OUT THAT ELISA STEINBERG COMPLETED HER PHD DISSERTATION ABOUT 'INTONATION IN YIDDISH' AND SHE SEARCHED FOR THAT INTONATIONTRANSFERRED TO ENGLISH BY PEOPLE HERE, AND TO SPANISH BY JEWS IN URUGUAY.MANY THANKS TO ELISA FOR HER HELPFUL COMMENTS AND IDEAS! I ENJOYED THEDISCUSSIONS WITH HER AND SHE ENABLED ME TO COME UP WITH NEW IDEAS ABOUT MYPROJECT. THANKS TO HOLLY NIBERT FOR SENDING ME HIS ARTICLES.

JEREMY W. KING, ASST. PROF. OF SPANISH LINGUISTICS AT THE DEPT. OF FOREIGNLANGUAGES AND LITERATURES LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY WHO SUGGESTEDCONTACTING DR. DOROTHY CHUN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARAAND READING HER BOOK ''DISCOURSE INTONATION IN L2: FROM THEORY AND RESEARCHTO PRACTICE'' PUBLISHED IN 2002.

I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE VERY MUCH DETAILED AND EXTREMELY HELPFUL EMAIL BYMADALENA CRUZ- FERREIRA WHO IS AN EXPERT IN THE FIELD OF MULTILINGUALPHONOLOGY AND INTONATION. SHE EVEN SENT ME SOME CHAPTERS OF HER DOCTORALDISSERTATION. HER THESIS DEALT WITH PORTUGUESE LEARNERS' ACQUISITION OFENGLISH INTONATION AND THE OTHER WAY AROUND AND SHE CHECKED COMPREHENSIONEXPERIMENTALLY AMONG ADVANCED LEARNERS. THE REFERENCE IS:

CRUZ-FERREIRA, M. (1983). NON-NATIVE COMPREHENSION OF INTONATION PATTERNSIN PORTUGUESE AND IN ENGLISH. PHD THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. ANABSTRACT IS ATHTTP://LINGUISTLIST.ORG/PUBS/DISS/BROWSE-DISS-ACTION.CFM?DISSID=809

CHUN, D.M. (2002). DISCOURSE INTONATION IN L2. FROM THEORY AND RESEARCH TOPRACTICE. NEW YORK, JOHN BENJAMINS.

LEVIS, J. AND L. PICKERING (2004). TEACHING INTONATION IN DISCOURSE USINGSPEECH VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY. SYSTEM 32(4): 505-524.TESOL QUARTERLY 39(3) FROM 2005, EDITED BY JOHN LEVIS, WHICH IS A SPECIALISSUE ON PRONUNCIATION.

MARCUS CALLIES FROM THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG,GERMANY SUGGESTED CONSULTING THE RECENTMONOGRAPH BY DOROTHY CHUN:HTTP://WWW.BENJAMINS.COM/CGI-BIN/T_BOOKVIEW.CGI?BOOKID=LL%26LT%201

MARY GRANTHAM O’BRIEN ALSO A PROMINENT RESEARCHER IN THIS FIELD OFFERED HERASSISTANCE. I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF SHE KEPT THIS CONTACT AND OFFEREDHER IDEAS! THANKS A LOT!

GREAT THANKS TO MAYR ROBERT FOR HIS STARTING HINT ABOUT PRAAT. TO QUOTEHIM: “LOAD ANY WAVE FILE INTO THE ANALYSER (NOT THE OBJECT BIT), GO TOEDIT, THIS WILL GIVE YOU A SPECTROGRAM, THEN SELECT PITCH CONTOUR. THISWILL SHOW YOU THE FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY PATTERN/ INTONATION CONTOUR.”

MARIA DOLORES RAMIREZ, A GREAT EXPERT IN L2 PHONOLOGICAL ACQUISITION WHOWON THE EDUCATIONAL PRIZE FROM SPAIN SENT ME HER PUBLICATIONS AND I FINDTHEM REALLY HELPFUL! I AM DEFINITELY SURE I AM GOING TO QUOTE HER IN MY PHDAND I AM WILLING TO RECEIVE FURTHER HELPFUL IDEAS ABOUT MY PROJECT. I AMESPECIALLY GRATEFUL TO HER WILLINGNESS TO EVEN CO-SUPERVISE MY PHDDISSERTATION.

ROBIN BARR WHO WORKS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (WASHINGTON, D.C.) IN THE TESOLPROGRAM AND HIS COLLEAGUES HAVE DEVELOPED A TEACHER-TRAINING COURSE ON''TEACHING PRONUNCIATION''. HE PROMISED TO GIVE ME SOME OF THE TESOLREFERENCES ON USE OF INTONATION TO IMPROVE INTELLIGIBILITY.

SEAN ARMSTRONG WROTE SOME INTERESTING THOUGHTS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THESUPRASEGMENTALS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING.

SPECIAL THANKS TO SUSANN LINGEL FOR HER USEFUL COMMENTS AND INFO ABOUT TOBIAS WELL AS FOR HER WILLINGNESS TO HELP ME FURTHER.

TESSA BENT SUGGESTED MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TOBI HERE:HTTP://WWW.LING.OHIO-STATE.EDU/~TOBI/A BOOK WITH LOTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT ANALYZING THE INTONATION OF DIFFERENTLANGUAGES AND SHE FOUND USEFUL IS: “PROSODIC TYPOLOGY” EDITED BY JUN.THANKS TO TESSA FOR SENDING ME HER VERY INTERESTING DISSERTATION WHERE SHESTUDIED THE PERCEPTION OF MANDARIN TONE BY NATIVE ENGLISH LISTENERS.

MY WARMEST THANKS GO TO THE MOST HELPFUL COLLEAGUE WALCIR CORDOSO WHOSEEMAILS REALLY SUPPORTED AND ENCOURAGED ME. THANK YOU WALCIR FOR SENDING METHE ARTICLES FROM DERWING, FIELD ETC. AS WELL AS FOR THE PRAAT MANUAL. IFOUND THE DISCUSSION WITH HIM INTERESTING AND I AM GLAD HE IS WILLING TOKEEP THE CONTACT.

YI XU WAS ALSO VERY MUCH WILLING TO HELP ME AND HERE IS A LINK WHERE YOUCAN DOWNLOAD HER PUBLICATIONS:HTTP://WWW.PHON.UCL.AC.UK/HOME/YI/PUBLICATIONS.HTML..

YUWEN LAI, WHO WORKS PRODUCATION AND AND PERCEPTION OF MANDARIN LEARNERS OFENGLISH, GAVE ME A USEFUL LINK ABOUT TOBIHTTP://WWW.LING.OHIO-STATE.EDU/~TOBI/. SHE ALSO INFORMED ME ABOUT THE PRAATUSER GROUP ON YAHOO.COM:HTTP://UK.GROUPS.YAHOO.COM/GROUP/PRAAT-USERS/

OTHER PERSONS WHO RESPONDED: RIKKA ULLAKONOJA WHO IS CURRENTLY DOING MY PHDTHESIS ON ACQUISITION OF RUSSIAN INTONATION BY FINNISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTSHERE IN JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND; LAURA SICOLA WROTE ME SOME NICE EMAILS, ANTONRYTTING, COREY TELFER, TERESA SOTO, YAHYA ABDAL-AZIZ AND KNIGHT RACHAELOFFERED TO HELP AND CONTACT ME AGAIN.

I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO RESPONDED. I THINK THIS LIST IS COMPLETE,BUT IF NOT, I APOLOGIZE TO ANYONE THAT I INADVERTENTLY LEFT OUT. WELL,THANKS AGAIN TO ALL OF YOU WHO RESPONDED - MAYBE I'LL QUOTE SOME OF YOU INMY PHD DISSERTATION.

THANKS TO MY SUPERVISOR, PROF. DR. HAHN HER MOTIVATING COMMENTS, USEFULSUGGESTIONS AND IDEAS, MY DISSERTATION HAS UNDERGONE SOME CHANGES. IDECIDED TO CONCENTRATE MORE ON THE FACTORS AFFECTING FOREIGN ACCENT AMONGADVANCED L2 LEARNERS AND ON THE INFLUENTIAL VARIABLES FOR THE ACQUISITIONOF L2 PRONUNCIATION INSTEAD OF CONCENTRATING ON THE TECHNICAL AND ACOUSTICANALYSIS OF THE SUPRASEGMENTALS.

I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY AND GRATEFUL TO CONTINUE THESE INTERESTINGDISCUSSIONS AND EXCHANGE IDEAS WITH ALL OF YOU ABOUT MY DISSERTATION.